Re: Samba &| VFS
Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> We recently set up a Samba server on Debian potato. After a little
> uptime (about 30 minutes to an hour) we saw an error message that
> said:
>
> VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached
>
> I did some searching on the net, and found what might be a solution.
> I added a simple .sh script to the startup that increased the file-max
> and inode-max via the following:
>
> echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
>
> That seemed to help a little. Now we are getting errors that say
> something like 'no fork() resources available' or something like that.
check ulimit. from the sounds of it your running a very busy server.
try ulimit -u 1024 and restart samba (from the same shell). if
that works i would add it to the samba scripts in /etc/init.d or
something
to make it take affect the next time you reboot.
nate
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